French Fridays with Dorie: Shrimp & grapefruit salad

This week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe was supposed to be Crab and Grapefruit Salad (pp 134-135) but when I came to make it, I realised that I had shrimp in the freezer and figured it would be just as good. I’m all about using up what we have in the fridge right now so I made quite a few changes to this recipe but it’s all good. It was a perfect lunch for one on a hot sunny March afternoon (yes, really!).

My salad consisted of grapefruit segments and juice, shredded mint, cooked shrimp, red and yellow bell peppers, scallions, lemon zest and lemon juice and a splash of olive oil. So so easy to whip up and I imagine this would be great with blood oranges too!

So so good. Light and sweet with enough acid and savoury flavours to make it definitely not a dessert. I’ll be making this again because I always have all these ingredients on hand. What a great “find” 🙂

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52 Responses to French Fridays with Dorie: Shrimp & grapefruit salad

The shrimp addition was just as pretty in the presentation as the lump crabmeat. You’re right, we always have shrimp in the freeezer. Lump crabmeat – not so often! I thought this was a quick and easy salad also. Elegant, in its way. Tasty, for sure. Think I will give the shrimp angle a go. Mary

My husband thought this would be great with shrimp as well. I will have to tell him your tried it and loved it and will definitely make it this way next. Your photos captured the wonderful colors of this salad, Mardi.

Blood oranges are a great idea! I bet that would taste amazing. Shrimp in the salad looks divine to me but I never get to cook with is because my husband has an allergy. Oh well, whenever I go home my dad and I make everything with shrimp so I usually get my fill about 3 times a year! 🙂

I used shrimp too, fellow Torontonian! Instead of chopping them into small pieces, I halved them horizontally so the salad looked more generous than it really is. 😉 I can just imagine using this as filling for an asian rice paper salad roll! The top photo of your post is so vibrant. The colour totally jumped out of the screen. Pretty!

I’m moving in a few months, and am totally in “eat the contents of the pantry and freezer” mode, so I get the shrimp substitution. That’s how I wound up using crab. haha. If I didn’t have crab in the freezer, I probably would have bought shrimp, because of the price of crab and the fact that I erroneously expected to hate this recipe.